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Mineral oils: processes and products July category listing 07/09

20090188834 - Doped alumino-silicate catalyst and improved process for treatment of hydrocarbon feeds: The present invention concerns doped catalysts on an alumino-silicate support with an adapted macropore content and hydrocracking/hydroconversion and hydrotreatment processes employing them. The catalyst comprises at least one hydrodehydrogenating element selected from the group formed by elements from group VIB and group VIII of the periodic table, a controlled quantity... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20090188835 - Process and equipment for fluid catalytic cracking for the production of middle distillates of low aromaticity: The present invention relates to a process and equipment for fluid catalytic cracking for the production of middle distillates of low aromaticity that comprises cracking a mixed feed consisting of heavy fractions of hydrocarbons, in the absence of added hydrogen and employing a catalyst of low activity and low acidity,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090188836 - Methods for producing a crude product: Systems, methods, and catalysts for conversion of a hydrocarbon feed to a total product are described. Contact of the hydrocarbon feed with one or more catalysts produces the total product. The total product includes a crude product that is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa having a... Agent: Richard B. Taylor C/o Shell Oil Company

20090188837 - Process for desulfurization of cracked naphtha: A process for the desulfurization of a fluid catalytically cracked naphtha wherein the valuable olefins are retained and recombinant mercaptans are prevented from forming, resulting in a low sulfur naphtha. Embodiments disclosed herein may allow for more flexibility in varying the end point of the naphtha used in gasoline blending... Agent: Osha Liang LLP / Cdtech

20090188838 - Process to hydrodesulfurize fcc gasoline resulting in a low-mercaptan product: A process for reducing the sulfur content of a hydrocarbon stream, including: feeding a hydrocarbon stream including sulfur compounds to a catalytic distillation reactor having one or more hydrodesulfurization reaction zones; feeding hydrogen to the catalytic distillation reactor; concurrently in the catalytic distillation reactor: fractionating the hydrocarbon stream into a... Agent: Osha Liang LLP / Cdtech

20090188839 - Removal of peroxide impurities from naphtha stream: A method and apparatus for removing peroxides from an exposed naphtha stream is shown and described. The process includes the catalytic reactive oxygen stripping of peroxides thereby generating hydrocarbons and oxygen. Numerous conventional catalysts may be employed. The catalytic stripping reaction can be carried out at substantially lower temperatures than... Agent: Honeywell/uop Patent Services

20090184029 - Method to alter coke morphology using metal salts of aromatic sulfonic acids and/or polysulfonic acids: A method for altering coke morphology in a delayed coking process of heavy oil is provided. An effective amount of oil dispersible or oil soluble metal salts of aromatic sulfonic acids and/or polysulfonic acids is added or contacted with the resid or heavy oil at a point before or after... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20090184030 - Process for separating used oil: A process for removing impurities from used oil. Impurities such as water, solid particles, and the like are removed from used oil by processing the oil with a mixture of polar and non-polar solvents. The process operates at room temperatures and pressures, simplifying the equipment and energy requirement for the... Agent: BatemanIPLaw Group

20090178951 - Fuel composition: A middle distillate fuel composition is provided comprising (a) a middle distillate base fuel, (b) a Fischer-Tropsch derived paraffinic wax component, and (c) one or more cold flow additives; a method for formulating a middle distillate fuel composition comprising a middle distillate base fuel, comprising (i) incorporating into the base... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20090178952 - Process to upgrade highly waxy crude oil by hot pressurized water: A continuous process for upgrading highly waxy crude oil by contacting the highly waxy crude oil with supercritical water fluid to produce low pour point, high value crude oil having low sulfur, low nitrogen, and low metallic impurities for use as hydrocarbon feedstock.... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20090178953 - Systems, methods, and catalysts for producing a crude product: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The one or more catalysts may include a catalyst that has a median pore diameter of at least... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20090178954 - Process for enhanced olefin production: A processing scheme and arrangement for enhanced olefin production involves cooling or treating an olefin cracking reactor effluent stream by contacting the olefin cracking reactor effluent stream with a quench oil stream in a single contact cooler contact zone to produce a cooled vapor stream and to form a heated... Agent: Honeywell/uop Patent Services

20090178955 - Process and catalyst for cracking of ethers and alcohols: A process for the production of olefins from at least one of an alcohol and ether, the process including: contacting at least one alcohol or ether with a hydrofluoric acid-treated amorphous synthetic alumina-silica catalyst under decomposition conditions to produce an olefin. Also disclosed is a process for the production of... Agent: Osha Liang LLP / Cdtech

20090178956 - Method for reducing coke and oligomer formation in a furnace: A method for reducing the formation of coke and oligomers in the convection section of a hydrocarbon pyrolysis furnace, the method comprising reducing the partial pressure of the hydrocarbon feed to the furnace before that feed is mixed with dilution steam.... Agent: Lyondellbasell Industries

20090173662 - Fischer-tropsch wax composition and method of transport: The present invention relates to transportable product for the transportation of paraffinic wax and methods of transporting using this transportable product. The transportable product comprises 90 to 20 weight % of a liquid comprising >50 weight % alcohol and having a true vapor pressure of ≦14.7 psia when measured at... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090173663 - Corrosion and gas hydrate inhibitors with an increased biological degradability and a reduced toxicity: The invention relates to the use of compounds of formula (1) as corrosion and gas hydrate inhibitors. In said formula: R1 and R2 independently of one another represent C1 to C22 alkyl, C2 to C22 alkenyl, C6 to C30 aryl or C7 to C30 alkyl aryl; R3 represents M, hydrogen... Agent: Clariant Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090173664 - Process to upgrade heavy oil by hot pressurized water and ultrasonic wave generating pre-mixer: A process for upgrading heavy oil by mixing the heavy oil with water fluid using an ultrasonic wave generator prior to increasing the temperature and pressure of the mixture to values near to or exceeding the critical point of water, to produce low pour point, high value oil having low... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20090173665 - Catalyst for hydrocracking hydrocarbons containing polynuclear aromatic compounds: Oil soluble catalysts are used to convert polynuclear aromatic compounds in a hydrocarbon feedstock to higher value mono-aromatic compounds. The catalyst complex includes a catalytic metal center that is bonded to a plurality of organic ligands that make the catalyst complex oil-soluble. The ligands include an aromatic ring and a... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090173666 - Process for increasing the mono-aromatic content of polynuclear-aromatic-containing feedstocks: Hydrocarbons containing polynuclear aromatics, such as cycle oil and pyrolysis fuel oil (PFO), are upgraded using an catalyst complex that selectively cracks the polynuclear aromatic compounds to form higher value mono-aromatic compounds, such as benzene toluene, xylenes and ethyl benzene (i.e., BTX). The catalyst complexes include a catalytic metal center... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090173667 - High power microwave petroleum refinement: Methods, systems, and devices are described for using high-power microwave radiation to process (e.g., refine) recovered oil. In certain embodiments, relatively low-power microwave radiation is propagated into a recovered oil emulsion to process the emulsion into a more useful product. For example, the radiation may be used to refine the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090173668 - Processing asphaltene-containing tailings: Embodiments of a method and a system for recovering energy, materials or both from asphaltene-containing tailings are disclosed. The asphaltene-containing tailings can be generated, for example, from a process for recovering hydrocarbons from oil sand. Embodiments of the method can include a flotation separation and a hydrophobic agglomeration separation. Flotation... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20090166250 - System for upgrading of heavy hydrocarbons: Systems and methods for processing one or more hydrocarbons are provided. One or more hydrocarbons can be selectively separated to provide one or more heavy deasphalted oils. At least a portion of the heavy deasphalted oil can be cracked using a fluidized catalytic cracker to provide one or more lighter... Agent: Christian N. Heausler Kellogg Brown & Root LLC

20090166251 - All catalytic medicinal white oil production: All catalytic process for producing white oils is provided. More particularly, medicinal grade white oils are produced from a process including hydrotreating and/or hydrocracking, catalytic dewaxing followed by hydrofinishing to produce a medicinal white oil.... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20090166252 - Process for preparing lube basestocks having superior low temperature properties at high vi: A process for preparing basestocks having superior low temperature properties at high viscosity index (VI). More particularly, a waxy feedstock is contacted with a first dewaxing catalyst having a refined constraint index (CI*) 2.0 or less followed by contacting with a second dewaxing catalyst having a refined constraint index greater... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20090166254 - Heavy oil upgrader: Systems and methods for processing one or more hydrocarbons are provided. One or more hydrocarbons can be selectively separated to provide one or more heavy deasphalted oils. At least a portion of the heavy deasphalted oil can be thermally cracked to provide one or more lighter hydrocarbon products.... Agent: Christian N. Heausler Kellogg Brown & Root LLC

20090166255 - Olefin production utilizing whole crude oil/condensate feedstock with a partitioned vaporization unit: A method for thermally cracking a feed composed of whole crude oil and/or natural gas condensate using a partitioned vaporizer to gasify the feed before cracking same.... Agent: Lyondellbasell Industries

20090166253 - Process for upgrading atmospheric residues: Systems and methods for processing one or more hydrocarbons are provided. One or more hydrocarbon feedstocks can be selectively separated to provide one or more light deasphalted oils. At least a portion of the light deasphalted oil can be hydrocracked to provide one or more hydrocarbon products.... Agent: Christian N. Heausler Kellogg Brown & Root LLC

20090166256 - Staged co-processing of biofeeds for manufacture of diesel range hydrocarbons: Processes are provided for producing a diesel fuel product having a sulfur content of 10 ppm by weight or less from feed sources that include up to 20% by weight of a biocomponent feedstock. The mineral hydrocarbon portions of the feed sources can be distillate or heavier feed sources.... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20090166257 - Ionic liquid catalyzed alkylation process employing nozzles and system implementing such process: A process for a liquid/liquid reaction employs a nozzle dispersion whereby liquid reactants and liquid catalyst are injected through at least one nozzle into a reaction zone to effect a reaction. The reaction can be alkylation of at least one isoparaffin with at least one olefin in the presence of... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090166258 - Method for producing a hydrogen-enriched gas stream from hydrogenated gas streams comprising hydrocarbons: The invention concerns a method for producing a hydrogen-enriched gas stream from at least one gas stream comprising for the major part hydrogen and a gas stream comprising hydrogen and hydrocarbons, using a pressure-modulated gas adsorption unit, the temperature of the gas stream comprising hydrogen and hydrocarbons being first lowered... Agent: Air Liquide Intellectual Property

20090166259 - Metal-based coatings for inhibiting metal catalyzed coke formation in hydrocarbon conversion processes: A coating applied to at least a portion of the surfaces of reactors, reactor internals, other reactor components, and/or heater tubes is provided in order to minimize the formation of metal catalyzed coke in hydrocarbon conversion processes operating at temperatures at about 350° C. (662° F.) or greater and in... Agent: Honeywell International Inc Patent Services

20090166260 - Irregularly shaped non-spherical supported catalyst, and a process for hydroconverting heavy oil fractions: c

20090166261 - Upgrading heavy hydrocarbon oils: A process using supercritical water-oil emulsion to upgrade a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock into an upgraded hydrocarbon product or syncrude with highly desirable properties (low sulfur content, low metals content, lower density (higher API), lower viscosity, lower residuum content, etc.) is disclosed. The process does not require external supply of hydrogen... Agent: Chevron Corporation

20090166262 - Simultaneous metal, sulfur and nitrogen removal using supercritical water: A process for removing metals, sulfur and nitrogen in the upgrading of hydrocarbons comprising: mixing hydrocarbons containing metals, sulfur and nitrogen with a fluid comprising water that has been heated to a temperature higher than its critical temperature in a mixing zone to form a mixture; passing the mixture to... Agent: Chevron Corporation

20090166263 - Low pressure selective desulfurization of naphthas: A low hydrogen partial pressure process for desulfurizing naphtha in the presence of a hydrodesulfurization catalyst which catalyst is selective for suppressing hydrogenation of olefins and in the presence. This invention also relates to the use of optimum metals loading for achieving a high level of hydrodesulfurization with a low... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20090166264 - Multi-stage sulfur removal system and process for a fuel system: A system for producing an auxiliary fuel stream containing a low concentration of sulfur compounds from a primary fuel stream includes a first separation stage to separate a portion of a primary fuel stream into a first vapor permeate stream and a first retentate stream, a first separation stage partial... Agent: Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP

20090166265 - Hydrorefining method: The hydrorefining method of the invention is characterized by contacting, in the presence of hydrogen, a fuel stock comprising normal paraffins and oxygen-containing compounds, with a hydrorefining catalyst comprising a support containing USY zeolite and at least one solid acid selected from among silica-alumina, alumina-boria, silica-zirconia, silica-magnesia and silica-titania, and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090166266 - Integrated solvent deasphalting and dewatering: A method for dewatering and deasphalting a hydrocarbon feed is provided. A hydrocarbon feed containing one or more hydrocarbons, asphaltenes and water can be mixed or otherwise combined with one or more solvents. The addition of the solvent sufficiently decreases the density of the hydrocarbon feed to enable gravity settling... Agent: Christian N. Heausler Kellogg Brown & Root LLC